The DoG engineer asks Engineer A to conduct a district-wide study of

At a time when the government has been harping on foreign investment in a bid to advance Nepali
economy, one of the reputed foreign joint ventures is mulling over retracting its Investment from Nepal
because of Intellectual property rights (IPR) dispute with a local firm.

*A Japanese foreign investment in Nepal, Kansai Paint, which entered Nepal In 2012 in joint venture
with Nepal's Shalimar Paints, has failed to obtain trademark from the Department of Industry (Dol), This
is because capitalizing on the weak intellectual property rights (IPR) laws in the country, a local investor
had registered a firm under the name "Kansai Necrotic Paint Nepal Pvt Ltd” at the Office of Company
Registrar and had applied for trademark before the foreign joint venture,

The local firm — Kansai Nerolac Paint Nepal Pvt Ltd, which is run by Goyal Group — is in no way related
to the Kansai Paint.

The country may lose foreign investment worth Rs 350 million of the Kansai Paint, which entered the
country through Its Indian subsidiary Kansai Nerolac Paints India, as the Dol has scrapped the application
of the foreign joint venture to obtain trademark of its own name.

As per Pradip Koirala, director general of Dol, the authorized agency under the Ministry of Industry to
enforce Patent, Design and Trademark Act, the department had scrapped the application of the foreign
venture as per the provision of law that provides favorable treatment on ‘first come, first served’ basis,
He, however, admitted that the laws need to be amended to lure foreign Investment citing foreign firms
are sensitive in regard to intellectual property rights.

The globally renowned Kansal Paint had purchased 68 per cent stake of Nepal's Shalimar Paints through
its Indian subsidiary Kansai Nerolac Paints India and registered a company Kansal Paints Nepal Pvt Ltd.

However, the foreign joint venture had faced a court case from the local company —Kansai Neroloc
Paints Nepal Pvt Ltd, The Supreme Court, some four months back, had issued a verdict in Favour of the
local firm citing that it had registered the company prior to the foreign joint venture.

The local firm, which is producing paints under the brand of Nerolac and Kansai, again filed a case at the
Dol and the Dol also scrapped the application of foreign joint venture and refused to issue the
trademark it had sought.
As per the court's decision, the company has to change the name of its product because the local firm
has already captured the brand of reputed Kansai Nerolac Paint in the Nepal market,

“Kansai Paint, which came to Nepal through its Indian subsidiary after signing of bilateral investment
and protection agreement (BIPPA) with India during the premiership of former prime minister Baburam
Bhattarai, has been left red-faced in Nepal, "said Ashok Vaidya, who is 3 Nepali partner of the foreign
joint venture,

Due to the country’s weak laws, this case will establish a false precedence among potential foreign
investors in Nepal, according to Vaidya, “The country will not only lose foreign Investment, there are
chances it will also lose its reputation across the globe if the foreign investors withdraw investment from
Nepal.”

Kailash Chandra Goyal, who has been operating the local firm under the name of "Kansai Nerolac Paint
Nepal Pvt Ltd” and producing paints under the brand name of Nerolac and Kansai refused to comment
on the matter,

The company refused, citing its policy of protecting personal privacy provision of its client, and requests
to provide legal documents from US court for it to submit the data.

E) Since one of the seven suspects was found to be involved in the crime, do you consider the demand
of the US government to provide personal data of all the seven suspects justified?

The manager of the industry asked the MIS officer to change the data in its system to show that it is
complying with all the existing laws of hazardous waste dumping.

The MIS officer refused, saying that the data is available in many locations within the system, someone
else may have downloaded the data which may eventually get in the hands of the monitoring team, and
that it is unethical to change the data.

He promised that if the changes are made in the database and they are successful in averting penalty,
the industry will install water treatment plant, provide the clean water to the residents, and install
proper hazardous waste management system thereafter; this will be in the benefit of the industry, the
residents, and the industry's employees.
B) Considering that the population of the USA is 330 million, and vehicle ownership is 1 vehicle per 1.3
person, compare the numbers given above in terms of fatalities per million population and fatalities per
number of vehicles; the total number of vehicles registered in Nepal, including motorbikes, is about 2
million.

Prepare your report which addresses all the issues raised by PTEA and GoN, electronic monitoring of
seat occupancy, and a design to automatically revise bus fare in similar situations in the future so that
the risk and benefit in operation of public transport is transparent.

(a) if you are an engineer working for the NA, what suggestion would you give to the decision makers for
further expansion of the NA in other sectors where engineering services are needed?

(b) if you are an engineer working in a private sector in hydropower development and/or highway
sector, what is your suggestion/opinion on the gradual expansion of the NA in the sectors traditionally
handled by the private sector engineering firms?

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The contractor claimed that it could have completed the work if there was no national strike, which
resulted in the workers returning home and resulted in unavailability of construction materials in time,
and hence not responsible for the delay; the client cited workers’ strike as the main cause of delay.

A client came to a designer and asked to design a multistoried building.

He wanted to collect money from outside sources showing that designed as a proposal for his venture
and wanted to utilize that money in other business, Explain the roles of the client and the designer in
the perspective of professional ethics.
Morally, ethically, and legally, what should the designer do after knowing the real intention of the
client?

Should the designer refuse to design?

Should the designer refuse to design and just keep quiet?

Should the designer just submit a design and keep quiet because what the client does with the design is
none of the designer's business?

Should the designer design with piles (or other suitable foundation design) to make the structure
suitable for the type of soil?

Since the client is not going to build the structure anyway which does not increase hazard from the
building to anyone, what is wrong in just providing a design, as a hypothetical case?

Should the designer refuse to design and inform the government officials about the client’s intention?

Should the designer refuse to design and inform the media, or author an article in the newspaper, about
the intention of the client?

If the design is structurally sound, is the designer responsible (morally, ethically, legally) for what the
client does with the design?

The contractor denied and accused the client of providing low quality and inadequate amount of steel
bars for the roof slab.

The consultant reported that the cause of the roof collapse is the use of very dirty water in mixing the
concrete, which was provided by the farm owner and used by the contractor despite objections from
the consultant’s site supervisor.
Analyze the situation carefully and decide which party (client, contractor, and consultant) is more
responsible or less responsible for the roof collapse.